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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932.-
UNDER DOCTOR'S
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EYE STRAIN TROUBLES
MR. MACDONALD.
INFORMER IN LOCAL PROSECUTION
FAILS IN CRITICAL STAGE OF EVIDENCE
London, Apr. 19. Ong of the biggest neizures in The Prime Minister, Mr. Ram-recent years of dutiable tobacco Bay MaeDonald,
BOMB ATTEMPT ON VICEROY'S TRAIN.
UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACK AT PESHAWAR.
Peshawar, Apr. 19.
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is experiencing and cigarettes was made by with a home-made bomb occurred Final Showings To-day at 2.80, 5.10.7.15 & 9.20 p.m. trouble again with his right eye. party of reventie officers on during Lord. Willingdon's visit! but he will be allowed to go to board a cargo boat lying in the here to-day. The bomb exploded' on on the permanent way when the Shelter Geneva on medical conditions. Yaumali Typhoon
when 610 frontler mail was passing between A bulletin signed by Sir Thomas Saturday afternoon Horder, Physician in Ordinary-to pounds of tobacco and 30,888 the city and the cantonment.
The train was not damaged and the Prince of Wales, and Dr. W. cigarettes were removed.
There was aaoquel to the there wero no injuries, Three Hin- S. Duke-Elder, the ophthalmie specialist, says that the recently seizure before Mr. Wynne Jones dus have been arrested.--Reuter,
Simin, Apr. 19. have not at the Contral Police Court yea-
The Government of India has reported Improvement
were declared as an unlawful associn- been maintained, largely due to terday afternoon,, when two mon, The strain of the past five weeks, Ho Tal and Leung Han, having made it impossible to exer- charged with Importing the goods,tion the reception committee of Mr. G. S. Hugh-Jones appeared the Indian National Congress on cise the necessary care.
for Ho Tal and entered pleas of the grounds that Its objects
for the Interference in the ad- The condition of the eye is auch "not guilty."
normally, In evidence, Revenue Oficer ministration of law and the main- that Mr. MacDonald, would be advised to take a com- O'Neil said that, acting on intenance of order and plete rest for several weeks but formation received, he went to the public peace-Reuter.
Shelter on the doctors, however, will allow Yaumat! Typhoon him to proceed to Geneva on the Saturday afternoon and, ou boardj· ́ condition that he is subjected to a cargo boat, seized the tobacco the smallest strain possible and and cigarettes. Among the party witness stated that on April 7 he three consecutive hours dally must was the informer, who was former
ly a momber of the crew of the be given to complete relaxation.
beat and, when questioned as to contraband He will consequently fly to the owners of the Geneva at 3 p.m. to-morrow in at
Arc
endangers
Coming to the present case, was approached by Leung Kan with an offer of work. "I told him I didn't know how to work.".
Reassured that the work he
closed machine. Sir Thomas Hor. goods, ho led the party to a house would be asked to do wRB of a der and Dr. Duke-Eider are also in Canton Road where they aught kind, and consisting more-i quired for a man named Ho Tally of Going what he was told, he but he was not there.
going.
Ex-Police Employee.
"obeyed the call." as he put it.
He found himself on a boat in It is explained that whereas the condition of Mr. MacDonald's left
That evening, accompanied by the new role of a nonman, helping eye; which was operated onL, ČITAM improved, the undue strain thrown the informer, witness went to a Leang Kay to sail the craft to on the right eye has caused its detoa house in Des Voeux Road, Cen-Haksawan a village near Macao) terlaration.---Reuter,
PROUD OF SON
AIRMAN'S MOTHER GETS GREAT WELCOME.
Lapse of Memory.
tral and in a cubicle were two and back. At Haksawan, the boat men, one of them being the first took on 12 gunny baga, and re- out turned to Yuumati with this car- defendant, who was pointed
The defendant. how-go. The Revenue Officers then as lo Tai,
boarded. her, ever, denied the name.
Witness declared that it never Mr. V. II. W. Chittenden, of the Yaumalti Government slipway.left the boat in between the Ume Lidentified the first lefendant as the Revenue Officers took charge In Thi who had joined the Water and the time when it had been Police in January 1923 as a paint-towed back in a motor-bont to the Shanghai. Apr. 19.
er. He was transferred to the Imports and Exports Officer Mrs. Elizabeth Short, whose son Robert was killed in an air battle Harbour Department in February!
R. O. O'Neil pointed out that at Soochow in February, arrivel 1925, and worked under the per- this afternoon aboard the Presi-sonal supervision of witness from
that fear might have caused this dent Taft, accompanied by her son February 1928 to September 1931, that was not true, and, suggesting
when he absconded, Edmund.
Evidence of the arrest of the sudden lapse of memory, asked Long before the launch conveg- ing her from the Dollar wharf at second defendant in Canton Road witness to recall that he was with was given by ahim (R. O. O'Neil) in the motor-. Poctung arrived at the Customs on Sunday last jetty, a huge crowd of sightseera Chinese Revenue officer, who stat. boat. had assembled, and ns Mrs. Shorted that when the acensed was in- landed a number of movie cameras formed he was wanted in connexion recorded the scene. Mrs. Short. with the affairs of Ho Tai, re- who enjoys the distinstion of leg marked that, as the officer knew,
His Worship, in considering the the first woman to reraiv. unfit was no use him denying it. official welcome by the Chinese
Informer failed.
matter, sald he was not sure whe- Government, was dessed in black
The next witness was Tam Sing. Ither Tam told the Court from head to foot.
Among the welcomers were dele-the informer. Impressed with the lies than he did in his informatio gations of Chinese boy scouts and junction of adhering strictly tejto R. O, O'Neil. Except for Ho girl guides, and various other the truth, he was heard to declare Tai being mentioned at one time public organisations, all carrying that he viewed it in the same light as having paid for towage American flags.
With tears in her eyes, Short walked slowly to a waiting car, which conveyed her to the nearby Cathay Hotel
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That left witness unshaken.
Mr. Hugh-Jones opposed the O'Nell was bound by the evidence currection, contending that R. 0. of his own witness.
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as life and death, and that con- and as having been present when STAR
Mrs.sequently he would not add one the contraband was inoded into the boat at Haksawan, there was Mr. Hugh- iota to the truth,
"Nor to subtract from it," his no evidence against
Jones' client. He was discharged, Worship interposed.
Witness was asked what occupa-[Mr. Hugh-Jones being not called tion he ordinarily followed, and upon to reply. replied that he was a coolie.
Interviewed by Reuter she said, "I am proud of my son".
Mr. Robert Short's remains will be baried on April 24, at Hungjao the outskirts. of cemetery, o11 Shanghai. Four Chinese and four American aviators will net an Fall bearers-Reuter.
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His Worship found that Leung
R. O. O'Nell: How do you get Han was on the boat on its trip return to Haksawas, and on its money to live?
Witness: Sometimes my friends with the contrahand. He fined or three help me out by giving me ten orLeung Han $6.350, months' hard Inbour. twenty cent pieces.
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gradually gations are brought to coincide. A agreement providing that reduc- tion and limitation be achieved by stages with rovialon at the short- est possible Intervals was submit- ted by the Belgian, Spanish, Czecho-Slovakian, Lanish, Estho The General Committee of the nian, Norwegian and Urugynyán Disarmament Conference resumed delegations.
LABOURS.
Geneva, Apr. 19.
its labours to-day. Herr Nudolny,
This met with general accop. however, a German delegate, declared that tance. M. Litvinoff,
to the mention, of it was essential to give effect to objected substantial reductions within the the League in the rosolation, framework of Article VIII of the as the Soviet is not a member of the League and urged a substan- Convention.
Herr Nadolny added that it was tial reduction in armaments,
Sir John Simion, the British impossible for Germany to accept the proposal of M. Litvinoft, Foreign Secretary, suggested that the Soviet dolegate, though the a more definite wording ehould be German Government agreed with inserted in place of "at the short- his principle of proportional re-est possible intervals," as the duction.
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